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title: 'Brand Designer at Merciv'
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# Brand Designer at Merciv

- **Company:** Merciv
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/merciv/4ddb3bd4-d75e-4eca-9971-a07b21ecb4b2

## Job description

Brand Designer Full-time · New York, NY (SoHo) · Reports to the Head of Brand

## About Merciv

Merciv is an AI-native consumer intelligence platform for leading enterprise brands. We emerged from stealth in early 2026 and work with some of the largest consumer companies in the world. We're building a top-tier design and marketing function from the ground up, and brand is central to how the market understands us.

## The role

We're looking for a Brand Designer to own the day-to-day expression of the Merciv brand across every touchpoint - from sales decks and marketing assets to social, web, and campaigns. You'll work directly with the Head of Brand, taking creative direction and running with it: turning strategy into consistent, high-craft, on-brand work at startup speed. This is a high-ownership, hands-on seat for someone who wants their work everywhere the company shows up.

## What you'll do

- Own day-to-day design production: sales and pitch decks, one-pagers, marketing and event assets.
- Design social and LinkedIn content that's on-brand and built to perform across platforms.
- Extend and maintain the brand system - typography, color, layout, motion - so everything Merciv ships feels consistent and considered.
- Design and update web pages and landing pages, taking work from concept to shipped.
- Support brand content and campaigns (launch/product videos, merch and apparel collabs) in partnership with contractors and vendors.
- Partner cross-functionally with GTM, sales, and product so brand shows up clearly in how we sell and communicate.
- Take creative direction and run with it - moving fast through iterations in a sprint cadence while protecting the quality bar.

## What we're looking for

- 3+ years in brand / visual design, ideally in-house at a tech company or startup (agency backgrounds welcome if paired with in-house-style ownership).
- A standout portfolio - show, don't tell. Strong typographic rigor, visual judgment, and taste.
- Systems thinking: you build durable, flexible brand systems, not just one-off comps.
- Range across identity, layout, voice-aware content design, and digital - comfortable moving between decks, social, and web.
- Both strategic and hands-on: you take direction, defend choices with a clear rationale, and execute the details fast.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with shifting priorities.
- AI-literate: uses modern AI tools to multiply your own output and unblock yourself.

## Nice to have

- Experience with B2B / enterprise or consumer-tech brands.
- Web craft - can take a page from Figma concept to shipped.
- Motion / animation chops.
- Comfort directing external contractors (video, illustration, print) when needed.

## How we work

- You'll report to and work closely with the Head of Brand, who sets creative direction; you'll own execution and increasingly the systems behind it.
- In-person in our SoHo office, collaborating daily with brand, GTM, and product.
- Tools: Figma, plus Notion and modern AI tooling as part of the daily workflow.

Hiring process An intro call, a 60-minute portfolio deep dive, a short, time-boxed craft exercise on a hypothetical prompt (presented live), and a team + founder conversation with reference checks. Tight and respectful of your time - roughly two weeks end to end.

Merciv is building the future of autonomous commerce. We're committed to assembling a diverse team of builders who want to revolutionize how the world does business. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

## About Merciv

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Merciv provides an enterprise consumer intelligence platform that connects internal knowledge with external consumer signals, syndicated research, and product context into one living, cited source of truth.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding $16.95M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (40 Broad St, New York, NY 10004)
- **Founded**: Conflicting reports — Built In lists 2022 [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/merciv), while other sources indicate 2025 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv). The founding timeline appears to relate to an earlier entity or rebranding.
- **Founders**: Shaia Erlbaum (Co-Founder, CEO) and Zander Arnold (COO, likely co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise intelligence / consumer intelligence / AI-powered research platform
- **Target customers**: B2B – large enterprise brands with significant internal and syndicated research needs; also teams in marketing, strategy, product, and insights
- **Mission/purpose**: “One source of truth for your consumers” – enabling teams to make defensible decisions by synthesising internal and external data with cited outputs.

## Products & Services
- **Merciv Platform** (SaaS): An AI-native consumer intelligence platform that:
  - **Research**: Query internal PDFs, presentations, reports, datasets alongside social signals (Reddit, TikTok, X, Instagram, YouTube), Google Trends, syndicated research, and the open web – all with paragraph-level citations and confidence scoring.
  - **Analyze**: Run sentiment analysis, trend detection, competitive comparisons, and opportunity mapping in plain language.
  - **Deliver**: Generate board-ready PowerPoint, Word, and Excel outputs with citations, visualizations, and recommendations.
  - **Track**: Continuous monitoring of brands, competitors, categories, and consumers with sentiment tracking, competitive alerts, micro-trend detection, and prioritised alerts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$16.95M** – comprised of a $3.0M round (Aug 2024) and a **$14.0M seed round** (Oct 2025) led by **AI x IA** [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AI x IA (lead investor in seed round); the platform integrates with 1,300+ connectors including syndicated research providers, Looker, Snowflake, Databricks, SAP, Shopify, etc.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount growth**: 9 employees (as of mid-2026) with monthly growth of +40% and yearly growth of +100% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv)
  - **LinkedIn followers**: 623, up +19.6% month-over-month and +282.2% year-over-year [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv)
  - **Open roles**: 5 active job postings (Senior Frontend Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer AI Platform, Senior Engineer Agentic Infrastructure, Senior DevOps Engineer Platform Infrastructure, Senior ML/AI Engineer Agentic Intelligence) with quarterly posting growth of +400% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv)
  - **SOC 2 Type II certified** and enterprise-ready with SSE, SCIM, MFA, and least-privilege access [merciv.com](https://www.merciv.com/enterprise)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cited, auditable insights**: Every output includes paragraph-level citations, confidence scoring, and a complete audit trail – allowing traceability from source to recommendation.
- **Zero-training data policy**: Customer data is never used to train Merciv models or any third-party AI; each customer runs in a fully isolated tenant.
- **One unified layer**: Unlike social listening tools (Brandwatch, Sprinklr) that treat social as the whole picture, Merciv integrates internal research, syndicated reports, reviews, and the open web into a single source of truth.
- **Enterprise governance by default**: Permission-controlled access, SSO/SCIM, SOC 2 Type II, and a 24-hour breach response plan.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priority**: Scaling the platform to serve large enterprise brands, expanding connectors and agentic infrastructure, and building out the engineering team (visible in open roles for agentic intelligence, platform infrastructure, and AI).
- **Direction for growth**: Deepening the “living source of truth” concept with proactive monitoring, predictive foresight, and seamless integration with existing enterprise data stacks.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: Small, high-growth team (9 people) with a strong technical core (4 in engineering, 1 in design); open roles span frontend, full-stack, AI/ML, DevOps, and agentic infrastructure.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid workspace (based in New York City); some roles described as “in-office” – likely expectation of regular in-person collaboration at the New York HQ.
- **Notable perks/context**: Building an enterprise intelligence platform from the ground up; direct impact on product direction; opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI agent infrastructure with a strict data privacy stance.
- **Executive team**: Co-founders Shaia Erlbaum (CEO) and Zander Arnold (COO) involved day-to-day; recent departure of founding product engineer Jared Scheib (Apr 2026) suggests normal startup churn.

## Sources
1. [merciv.com](https://www.merciv.com/) – Company homepage and product description
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/merciv) – Company LinkedIn (employees, funding, recent departures)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/merciv) – Built In company profile (founding year, office location, perks)
4. [merciv.com/enterprise](https://www.merciv.com/enterprise) – Enterprise security and integration details
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/merciv](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/merciv) – Official careers page (job listings)

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